An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill].

  • John Fothergill
Date:
1769
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Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ +8 3 feemed to be the Caufe of hidden Death, in a Girl about 12 Years old. She was feized in the common Way, with Shivering, Head- ach, Sicknefs, Vomiting, and Purging. The Difcharges abated in a few Hours, and were fucceeded by great Heat, Rednefs of the Skin, and a fore Throat; the Uvula, Ton/ils, and contiguous Parts, were red, and fo fwelled in eight or ten Hours, as to touch each other, and feemed to clofe the Entrance into the Pharynx. She breathed without much Difficulty, fwallowed with lefs Pain than could be imagined, and fpit up large Quan¬ tities of Phlegm. About fix in the Even¬ ing ffie was feized with a Difficulty of Breathing, as if ftrangled : Thofe about her railed her up, thinking ffie was in a Fit; ffie recovered herfelf a little, but expired upon being again laid down in Bed, in fomewhat lefs than 24 Hours from the firfl: Attack. A large Quantity of vifcid Phlegm with which, after ffie was dead, her mouth appeared to be filled, together with the tumefied Uvula, Tonfih, and Velum Palati, had perhaps jointly clofed the Rima Glottidis, and put a Stop to Refpiration. By a Fall in her Infancy ffie was reduced to the Neceffity of ufing Crutches. She was big-boned, had a good Appetite; and, for want of that Exercife which Petfons at her Age commonly enjoy, feemed to be plethoric, 4 Thele
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